Quantized event-triggered communication based multi-agent system for distributed resource allocation optimization

This paper investigates a multi-agent system with quantized event-triggered communication mechanisms to reduce the communication expenditure. The event-triggered communication mechanism is proposed to reduce the utilization of communication bandwidth, which lowers the communication expenditure in communication frequency. The quantized communication mechanism quantizes the communication information in the multi-agent system with limited communication capacity. First, a quantized periodic communication mechanism system is proposed, which provides a lower bound of the communication interval for the quantized event-triggered communication system to avoid the Zeno behavior. Then the system with quantized event-triggered communication is proved to be convergent to an optimal solution of distributed constraint optimization. With the quantized communication mechanism, the system can reduce the communication cost in the frequency of communication and the amount of transmission data. The proposed method has a tradeoff between energy saving and precision. Finally, the simulation results with comparisons verify the convergence of the system and exhibit the accuracy with different quantizer densities.